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3 Minutes of Surprising Trivia

Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby, a website that sells CDs for tons of independent musicians, located in Portland, Oregon (my home town). In the ultra-brief TED Talk below, he gives us several bits of very interesting trivia about Japan, China, and west Africa -- none of which have anything to do with selling CDs. If you've got the three minutes, you'll learn something -- I promise!

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes.
He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)